mattwalker_21
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That's a really really really nice kit!!!!!
I like your rack system, it's the same idea as the Gibraltar Stealth hardware, isn't it?
And then that finish........ lovely!!
But what is that thing in your bassdrum in the first picture??
You say you play all kinds of music, also math metal. Is that the Dream Theater stuff with odd time signatures?
Bram
Thanks! I wasn't really that familiar with Gibralter's Stealth stuff but I just looked into it and I guess it is a similar idea. I don't have the snare on its own separate stand, although that would be nice. Basically, I'm just trying to get the rack to have the smallest footprint and most economical setup possible. For quite some time I had a bar spanning across the centre and mounted the toms and some cymbals off of that but that was bulky looking and took up more space than I would like. This summer I had the idea that I could put my setup together using two separate racks on each side. It involved cutting down some rack tubes and doing some tricky things with stands and angles but I eventually got it done. It really allows the drums and cymbals to be seen and, most importantly, it allows me much easier access to my bass drum when I take it out for gigs. I don't have to worry about maneuvering around a centre rack bar or clams when I'm taking the bass in and out.
And the thing in my bass drum is just a little stuffed snake from a fair or something. It guards my bass drum from mice, rats (well, not rats since Alberta is "rat free"), and other rodent pests.
I do like playing Dream Theater kind of stuff but I'd say that's more along the lines of prog metal. Math metal is more like Dillinger Escape Plan and Meshuggah and other similar "angular" approaches to metal. It can sound frantic, choppy, disjointed, mind-numbing, and just all around crazy. Basically, these bands are taking tension and dissonance to the edge by employing rhythmic tools to their fullest. This can be odd time signatures, extremely long phrases, extremely short and choppy phrases, and all kinds of stuff like that. DEP sounds very frantic with times and phrases changing constantly and making huge dynamic changes on a dime. Meshuggah has more of a minimalist approach where they'll play a melodic figure or time signature that repeats every, say, 23 beats or something like that, between only two or three notes. There's a lot of layering that goes into this kind of stuff with lots of extreme tension and release. A few friends of mine muck around with this kind of stuff and I write things here and there on the computer but it's really difficult to write or find players that can pull it off together so I mostly just play along with records and stuff like that.